In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

I'm mostly just getting used to the idea that people want to hear what I have to say.

I'm always active throughout the year.

I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?

I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.

One of the worst things you could do in that world is curse at someone.

We Logans don't have much to do with white folks. You know why? 'Cause white folks mean trouble.

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.

Education is the apprenticeship of life

Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.